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What this means is that no one technically voted on the first day and we have all been auto-lynched. Since none of us were following ghost rules from that point forward, we are all banned from werewolf for life. - Cymsdale

There was no valid target. Nobody had 50% of your votes. True, Paendrag had as many votes as you, but it wouldn't make sense to let you leaderlynch someone who was already lynched.

I'd like to hear whether anyone feels I made the wrong choice on that. It simply seemed to me that there was no valid target to switch the lynch onto. Would others have allowed Kriszo to put the lynch on the already-lynched Paendrag?

EDIT

On second thoughts perhaps that was an error. If I had made it clear that a tie would mean no leaderlynch, Kriszo could have voted for himself, thereby making Pean a valid target...

You made the right choice.

Originally Posted by Vainglory

The problem is that I had never seen this before - to my knowledge it has never occurred before. The 50% rule has appeared only in the latter part of my time here and not everyone has used it since it was first proposed. In games it has been used I am not aware of a situation where there were insufficient valid targets in this manner. It never occurred to me - or indeed, anyone - that such a situation would arise. If it had I would have explicitly stated the situation. When it did eventuate it seemed intuitive to me that the answer was that without a valid target and you cannot redirect the lynch. Unfortunately it was only when I elucidated it I realized that if you'd known this you'd have avoided the situation. If I had realized you interpreted the rules differently - which is not unreasonable because they say nothing about the situation - then I suppose I would have leaderlynched Paendrag on the basis that with proper information you'd have put yourself ahead in order to free up a valid candidate.

I am very sorry for this outcome. You have a right to be frustrated by the outcome: I correctly observed the rules, but I had failed to make the rules clear to you, and that's always a bitter pill. I can only apologize; it should be clear from our private correspondence that I was willing to give you every opportunity to use your leaderlynch. In future I suppose the 50% leaderlynch rule needs to explicitly state that in the event of a tie the leader must have enough valid targets to account for all lynches, so that if 2 people are tied, 2 people must be lynched, even if 1 victim is not changed.

The version of the rule in my big specifically stated it was swapping one person who was lynched for one person who wasn't. Actually... your rules don't even say "at least half", just "half" I would permit a clarification of them mid game, if you post it here in big letters too.

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